business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/ us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/business noun (SELLING)
in business Currently, there are fewer firms in business (= operating) in the area than ever before.
My brother's in business.
She set up in business (= started her own company) as a management consultant.
out of business This new tax will put a lot of small firms out of business (= they will stop operating).
Eventually they found a consultant they felt they could do business with (= with whom they could work well).
- close downWith sales down, the company closed one factory down and reduced the workforce at another.
- closeMany of the shops in the High Street have closed recently.
- shut downThe bookshop is shutting down after 25 years of business.
- shutUK Several of the bank's local branches are shutting.
- shut up shopUK The seaside businesses all shut up shop during the winter.
- go/put out of businessMy favourite ice cream shop went out of business last summer.
- Many things make it difficult for women to reach the top in US business.
- The way to be successful in business is always to stay one jump ahead of your competitors.
- What can European companies learn from Japanese business practices?
- She runs her own printing business.
- They put a lot of money into the family business.
- all-you-can-eat
- anti-consumer
- anti-dumping
- back order
- barter
- deal in something phrasal verb
- dealership
- desk research
- distribution channel
- do business with someone/something
- dumping
- hock
- omnichannel
- out of business
- pawn
- pre-emption
- pre-order
- tender
- the bottom drops/falls out of the market idiom
- window shopping
business noun (COMPANY)
The two brothers established/set up/started up a clothes retailing business.
business noun (WORK)
on business I'm in Baltimore on business.
a business appointment
- act as something phrasal verb
- all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy) idiom
- assignment
- bandh
- be at work idiom
- grind
- hoop
- hot-desking
- hotelling
- housekeeping
- in the line of duty idiom
- industry
- moonlight
- short-staffed
- skivvy
- slack
- slave
- slog
- slouch
- undertaking
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
business noun (MATTER)
make it your business I make it my business (= I feel it is my particular duty) to check the monthly accounts.
unfinished business We have some unfinished business to discuss (= we still have something important to discuss).
Arranging a trip abroad is a time-consuming business.
business noun (THINGS YOU DO)
- In spite of last night's terrorist attack, most people seem to be going about their business as if nothing had happened.
- "Where have you been?" "Mind your own business!"
- I was just motoring along, minding my own business, when suddenly I was stopped by the police.
- How you choose to conduct your private life is your own business!
- He's an interfering old busybody - who I go out with is none of his business!
